Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/28/2019

A 95-year-old woman in France was not allowed to vote in the EP elections because she was listed as dead. When the polling-place employee couldn’t find her name on his computer, he dug deeper, and discovered that she had reportedly died in 2017. As a result he was required to turn her away.

In other news, a German high school has banned the wearing of camouflage clothing by students, because seeing such apparel might traumatize refugees who came to Germany from war zones.

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Financial Crisis
» Illinois Pushes New ‘Wealth Tax’ As High Earners Flee the State in Droves
 
USA
» “Large Portions of America Need to Really Wake Up… “ Dan Bongino Backs Up Liz Cheney’s Claim of Treason by Obama’s Key Intel Leaders [Video]
» 18 Earth-Size Planets Found in Our Galaxy— All Hiding in Plain Sight
» American Soil is Being Globalized: Nearly 30 Million Acres of U.S. Farmland is Now Owned by Foreigners
» Breaking: Dossier Author Christopher Steele Refuses to Cooperate With US Attorney John Durham in His Investigation Into Origins of SpyGate
» CNN Announces More Layoffs as Zucker Reveals Network is Losing $10 Million a Year
» Colluders, Obstructionists, Leakers, And Other Projectionists
» Dem Candidate Eric Swalwell All But Apologizes for Being White
» Eek! Creepy Joe Biden Tells 10-Year-Old Girl at Rally: “I’ll Bet You’re as Bright as You Are Good Looking” Then Grabs Her Shoulders —video
» From Park Avenue Prince to Patricide
» High School Apologizes After Students’ MAGA Hats Blurred From Yearbook
» Jorge Ramos Pens Another Anti-Gun Screed
» Mark Cuban Suggests Changing Second Amendment in Three Ways
» PGPD Charge 25-Year-Old Man in Beltsville Murder
» Pope Breaks Silence on McCarrick: ‘I Knew Nothing, Nothing, Nothing’
» Rep. Ilhan Omar Supporters Chant at Black Conservative Veteran That “Right Wing Bigots Have Got to Go” [Video]
» States Sue to Block 1st Amendment Rights as Unconstitutional
» Trump to Win in 2020 According to ‘Remarkably’ Good Models
» Warzone: 42 People Shot in Chicago Over Memorial Day Weekend
 
Canada
» Another Catholic Church Vandalized, Ignored by Mainstream Media
» Salim Mansur — Canada’s Digital Charter — Trudeau’s Latest Assault on Free Speech
» Why Environment Minister Catherine McKenna Never Protests China’s Ozone-Killing CFC Pollution
 
Europe and the EU
» Analysis: ‘Perverse Reality’ of EU Order Triggered Swiss Gun Vote
» Bilderberg 2019 to Meet in Montreux, Switzerland This Week
» Bilderberg 2019: Full Agenda and Participants List
» Biologists Name New Rat Snake Species After Iron Age Kingdom
» Blair: Now Most Likely That Britain Will Have Second Referendum and Stay in European Union
» Burger King Brexit
» Center-Left Domination in Europe Ending
» EU Election Results Show People Are ‘Fed Up With Fake Democracy’
» EU Elections: Was Brexit the Beginning of the End for the European Union?
» France: Le Pen Calls on Macron to Resign After Victory in European Election
» French Senate Says Notre Dame Cathedral Must be Restored Exactly as it Was Before Fire — No Islamic Minarets or Swimming Pools
» French Woman Denied Vote Because She ‘Was Dead’
» Germany: Merkel Unretires: Chancellor Determined to Remain in Power Until 2021 as Succession Plan Implodes
» German Father is Arrested ‘After Slaughtering His Wife and Son’
» Luxembourg Archbishop Laments Populist Victories in EU Elections
» Romania Ruling Party Boss Slapped With 31/2 Year Prison Sentence for Graft
» Schwarzenegger Teams Up With Activist Greta Thunberg at Climate Summit
» Swedish Social Democrats See Worst EU Election Performance of All Time
» Swiss Green Party Candidate Claims Vegan Blood Can Kill Cancer Cells
» The EU Wants Your Sovereignty
» UK: ‘Absolute Tosh!’ Nigel Farage Loses His Temper and Blasts GMB Host for Repeating False Claims That Remain Votes ‘Add Up’ To a Majority in Euro Elections — Even Though Brexit Party Won Outright
» UK: ‘To All the MPs Who Told Me They Were Not Voting Labour, Your Secrets Are Safe With Me’:
» UK: BBC Says it’s Not Biased After Viewers Accused it of Downplaying Brexit Party’s Victory
» UK: Farage: Social Media Has Changed Politics… Now We’ve Got to Change the People in Westminster
» UK: London Bridge Terrorist Was Previously Hired to Investigate “Suspicious Packages”
» UK: MEP Janice Atkinson: “the People Had Spoken for a Third Time. How Many More Times Do We Have to Vote?”
» UK: Poll Reveals Majority of Tories Voted Brexit Party, Hunt Would Freeze Out Farage From Negotiations
» UK: Richard Littlejohn: Pundit After Pundit Was Wheeled Out to Rubbish the Election Result
» UK: Schoolboy, 11, Is Left Bruised and Terrified After a Middle-Aged Stranger Punched Him in a ‘Vicious Unprovoked Attack’ As He Played in Park
» UK: Thug Couple Kick and Stamp on Elderly Man in Shocking City Centre Attack as 10 Bystanders Watch
» UK: Viewers Accuse Channel 5 of ‘Glorifying Grooming’ For Featuring a Man, 44, Who Started a Relationship With a 16-Year-Old Girl in a Show About ‘Age Gap Love’
» UK: What if Euro Poll Was a General Election? Farage Would be PM With a 200-Seat Majority — But in Reality Higher Turnout Would Keep Nigel Out of No 10 (Probably)
» Vatican Newspaper: Sovereignty ‘Diametrically Opposed’ To Europe
 
Russia
» “A Tsunami of Fake S***”: Joe Rogan Sounds Alarm on Deep Fake Videos
 
South Asia
» Everest Mountaineer’s Tragic Last Text From Summit
 
Far East
» Frightening System Targets Anyone Not Behaving to Gov’t Standards
 
Australia — Pacific
» How an Australian Tradie Terrorist Designed Rockets ‘Branded’ With the Islamic State Flag — as He Denounces the Terror Group as an ‘Evil Cult’ And Cries in Court Facing 25 Years in Jail
» ‘It’s in Our Interest’: Australian ISIS Fighters and Their Families Should be Allowed Back Home, Intelligence Agencies Say
» Wild Two-Day ‘Crime Spree’ Worsens as Gang ‘Of African Appearance’ With ‘Edged Weapons and Metal Poles Break Into a Home, Steal a BMW and Attack People All Over Melbourne’
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» White South African Couple Executed in ‘Racist Attack’ On Highway
 
Immigration
» *Ugh* Pope Francis Trashes Trump — Compares Trump Wall to Berlin Wall (Video)
» “We Build the Wall” Closes Off Human and Drug Smuggling Corridor in One Weekend! $100,000 a Day Drug Pipeline Shut Down (Video)
» Dem Gov Who Pulled Troops From Border Now Demands Federal Help
» France: Suspect Behind Lyon Parcel Bomb Attack is an Illegal Migrant From Algeria
» German School Bans Camouflage Clothing to ‘Respect’ Refugees
» Hungary Vows to Fight EU Mass Migration Agenda After Huge Election Win
» Illegal Aliens Are Caught — Then Released Into U.S. Interior
» Illegal Health Care Worker Murders 12 Patients
» Michael Gove Will Offer Free British Nationality to Three Million EU Nationals
» Pope Francis Warns Against ‘Intolerance and Racism’ Towards Migrants a Day After Nationalist Parties Triumph in Italy, France and Britain
» Populist League Wins Big in Italian Region Known for Pro-Migrant Politics
» Spanish Crime Wave Sparked by Illegals, Report Says
 
Culture Wars
» A Wake-Up Call for Every Family and Church in the United Stares
» Call to “Steal From Walmart” Over Abortion Controversy Goes Viral
» Cultural Marxism: The Corruption of America
» Dem Candidate Eric Swalwell All But Apologizes for Being White
» Fake Hate: Subway Passenger Lied About Gay Attack — Was Actually the Aggressor
» Leftist Lunacy at Cannes
» ‘My Vegan Diet Brought on Early Menopause’: She’s a Poster Girl for the Meat-Free Revolution. But in a Shocking Confession, Cookery Author and Social Media Guru Virpi Mikkonen, 39, Admits it Ruined Her Health (So She’s Eating Burgers!)
» NPR Talk Show ‘1A’ Devotes Hour to Pro-Abortion Viewpoint, It’s Just ‘Pregnancy Tissue’
» Some Christian Leaders Join ‘Resist’ Movement
» The End of Women’s Sports: Biological Male Wins NCAA Women’s Track Championship — Video
» The Guardian: ‘Women Are Happier Without Children or a Spouse’
» Who Needs Debate? CNN’s ‘United Shades’ Spiked Pro-Lifers to ‘Stop the Patriarchy’
 

Illinois Pushes New ‘Wealth Tax’ As High Earners Flee the State in Droves

Cash-strapped Illinois is one step closer to passing a new income tax with the potential to seriously accelerate the exodus of high-earning taxpayers from the most financially dysfunctional state in America.

Lawmakers in the Illinois House of Representatives on Monday approved a constitutional amendment aiming to get rid of the state’s flat income tax, clearing the way for the amendment to be included on the November 2020 ballot for ratification by the voters. Governor JB Pritzker is widely expected to sign it the amendment, which has already been passed by the State Senate.

According to the Democrats who backed it, the tax will help fix the state’s recurring deficits by creating a sorely needed new revenue source: The higher taxes on those earning more than $250,000 would raise more than $3 billion annually while leaving taxes on 97% of the state’s residents unchanged.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

“Large Portions of America Need to Really Wake Up… “ Dan Bongino Backs Up Liz Cheney’s Claim of Treason by Obama’s Key Intel Leaders [Video]

Liz Cheney was mercilessly attacked by the left yesterday after she spoke out, to tell the truth about what Obama’s intel leaders attempted to do.

How else would anyone describe what they attempted to do except to say it was a coup and it was treason?

Dan Bongino is one of a few truth tellers out there who calls ‘em as he sees ‘em:

.@dbongino — “Large portions of America need to really wake up… This really happened… This was a coup. This was treason. Yes, I said it, and I mean it… Please rationally explain to me, if you heard what I just said, how else you would describe that.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

18 Earth-Size Planets Found in Our Galaxy— All Hiding in Plain Sight

Since its launch a decade ago, NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has found thousands of worlds, revealing that across the galaxy, planets are more numerous than stars.

But even though Kepler is done collecting data, scientists are still finding treasures in its vaults, including 18 new, relatively small worlds. Many of these previously overlooked planets are similar to Earth in size, and one of them even lives in an orbit that could be life-friendly.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

American Soil is Being Globalized: Nearly 30 Million Acres of U.S. Farmland is Now Owned by Foreigners

All across America, U.S. farmland is being gobbled up by foreign interests.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Breaking: Dossier Author Christopher Steele Refuses to Cooperate With US Attorney John Durham in His Investigation Into Origins of SpyGate

Christopher Steele, the former British spy who was paid by Hillary Clinton and the DNC to compile a 35-page dossier smearing Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign is refusing to cooperate with US Attorney John Durham in his investigation into the origins of Spygate.

Reuters reported:

The former British spy who produced a dossier describing alleged links between Donald Trump and Russia will not cooperate with a prosecutor assigned by U.S. Attorney General William Barr to review how the investigations of Trump and his 2016 election campaign began, a source with knowledge of the situation said.

Christopher Steele, a former Russia expert for the British spy agency MI6, will not answer questions from prosecutor John Durham, named by Barr to examine the origins of the investigations into Trump and his campaign team, said the source close to Steele’s London-based private investigation firm, Orbis Business Intelligence.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

CNN Announces More Layoffs as Zucker Reveals Network is Losing $10 Million a Year

CNN announced yet more job layoffs as boss Jeff Zucker revealed the network is losing $10 million dollars a year.

When rumors of mass layoffs at CNN emerged weeks ago, network host Brian Stelter denied the story was accurate.

However, last week the majority of CNN’s Atlanta division, which focused on health care, was let go.

Now it is being reported that the network will make “substantial” cuts to its London-based operation, with a least a dozen employees losing their jobs.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Colluders, Obstructionists, Leakers, And Other Projectionists

By Victor Davis Hanson

Before the defeat of Hillary Clinton, the idea that the Russians or anyone else could warp or tamper with our elections in any serious manner was laughed off by President Obama. “There is no serious person out there who would suggest that you could even rig America’s elections,” Obama said in the weeks leading up to the 2016 election.

Obama was anxious that the sure-to-be-sore-loser Trump would not blame his defeat on voting impropriety in a fashion that might call into question Clinton’s victory. After Clinton’s stunning defeat, Russian “collusion”—thanks initially to efforts by Obama holdover Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to go after Michael Flynn and the successful attempts of the CIA and FBI to seed the bogus Steele dossier among the government elite—became a club to destroy the incoming Trump Administration.

Colluders, Inc.

How ironic that Russian “collusion” was used as a preemptive charge from those who actually had colluded with Russians for all sorts for financial and careerist advantages.

The entire so-called Uranium One caper had hinged on ex-President Bill Clinton, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and their Clinton Foundation uniting with Russian or Russian-affiliated oligarchs to ease restrictions on the sale of North American uranium reserves to a Russian company with close ties to Vladimir Putin. Coincidentally what followed were massive donations from concerned Russian parties to the foundation, as well as a $500,000 honorarium to Bill Clinton for a brief Moscow speech. Note that no more money has been forthcoming from Russia to either of the Clintons or their foundation.

Had Donald Trump been caught, as President Obama was in Seoul in March 2012, on a hot mic assuring the Russians that he would be more flexible with Russia after the 2020 election (“On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved—but it’s important for him [Putin] to give me space”) he would likely now be facing real impeachment charges.

Imagine the cries of outrage from Representatives Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) had Trump inadvertently blurted out to the world that he was willing to warp U.S. security interests to fit his own reelection agenda. (Remember: “This is my last election . . . After my election, I have more flexibility.”) Such a stealthy quid pro quo certainly would have been the crown jewel of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report.

The locus classicus of Russian collusion, however, is Hillary Clinton’s effort in 2016. The facts are not in dispute. Using the three firewalls of the Democratic National Committee, the Perkins Coie law firm, and Glenn Simpson’s Fusion GPS, the Clinton campaign paid a foreign national, British subject Christopher Steele, to compile a smear dossier against Clinton’s then-opponent, Donald J. Trump.

Steele then bought Russian and Russian-related sources to produce supposed dirt on Trump. None of these Russian-generated smears would ever be verified. In fact, almost immediately most slurs proved to be outright lies and completely made up in their details—if not the stuff of a Russian disinformation campaign.[…]

[Read the rest… Hillary is still burned toast and the dirty rats are scurrying for cover.]

           — Hat tip: Dora [Return to headlines]
 

Dem Candidate Eric Swalwell All But Apologizes for Being White

“My soul cringed out of my body”

Democratic presidential candidate Eric Swalwell was slammed on Twitter after he all but apologized for being white.

During an interview with VICE, Swalwell was asked, “Why should another white guy be president?”

The interviewer appeared to have forgotten the fact that a black guy was recently president for 8 years.

[Comment: globalist tool.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Eek! Creepy Joe Biden Tells 10-Year-Old Girl at Rally: “I’ll Bet You’re as Bright as You Are Good Looking” Then Grabs Her Shoulders —video

He just can’t help it.

Joe Biden told a 10-year-old girl at Monday night’s AFT town hall, “I’ll bet you’re as bright as you are good-looking.”

Then he took her over to reporters and held her on her shoulders.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

From Park Avenue Prince to Patricide

Thomas ‘Tommy’ Gilbert appeared in court Tuesday to stand trial for the murder of his father Thomas Gilbert Sr after he threatened to cut his $3,000-a-month allowance by just $200 and stopped paying the rent on his $2,400-a-month Chelsea apartment.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

High School Apologizes After Students’ MAGA Hats Blurred From Yearbook

A Pennsylvania high school has apologized after two students saw their pro-President Trump hats censored from the yearbook.

Jeremy Gebhart, a 16-year-old student at Littlestown Senior High School, told local media that he and his friend wore “Make America Great Again” hats during the school’s spirit week back in October.

A photo of them that later landed in the yearbook had the logos Photoshopped out, the student said.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Jorge Ramos Pens Another Anti-Gun Screed

As sure as the Sun rises in the East, Univision senior anchor Jorge Ramos will find a way to renew his all-too-frequent calls for anti-gun legislation. A recent opinion column mashes violence in Mexico with incidents in the United States in order to make the same old points.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Mark Cuban Suggests Changing Second Amendment in Three Ways

Dallas Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban recently made a series of suggestions about how to “update” the Second Amendment to give states more power to regulate guns.

Contradictorily, though, Cuban also said the Second Amendment must be made more explicit that the federal government cannot prevent the ownership of guns.

“One, every American citizen has the right to own a gun,” Cuban said. “Two, the federal government will never be allowed to ever confiscate that gun from an individual.”

Note that Cuban says the Federal government should be banned from confiscating guns, but he did not say if he thinks the states have a right to confiscate guns. So, on the one hand, he seems to be saying that the federal government should operate with a hands-off-guns rule, while the states are free to do whatever they want with them. It appears that Cuban would allow the states to nullify the Second Amendment at will.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

PGPD Charge 25-Year-Old Man in Beltsville Murder

BELTSVILLE, MD. (WJZ) — Homicide detectives charged a 25-year-old man in connection with a homicide in Beltsville.

Akram Hussein of Temple Hills is charged with fatally shooting 30-year-old Cesar Zayas of Beltsville, Prince George’s County Police said.

Police were called to a home in the 11000 block of Roby Avenue for a shooting at around 6:10 p.m. on May 24. When they arrived they found Zayas shot inside of the home.

He was pronounced dead on the scene.

Police said Hussein met Zayas through a third person and became fixated on Zayas’ relationship with that third person…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Pope Breaks Silence on McCarrick: ‘I Knew Nothing, Nothing, Nothing’

Pope Francis has finally broken his silence regarding accusations leveled last August that he had known of ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s serial homosexual abuse and yet reinstated him to a position of influence in the Vatican.

“About McCarrick I knew nothing, obviously, nothing, nothing,” the pope told Mexican reporter Valentina Alazraki in a lengthy interview released Tuesday by Vatican News.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Rep. Ilhan Omar Supporters Chant at Black Conservative Veteran That “Right Wing Bigots Have Got to Go” [Video]

Notice how the reporter just speaks glowingly of Omar and then negatively of the anti-Omar crowd without showing one of the protesters speaking. Not fair and balanced at all but that’s what we would expect from CAIR TV.

What they didn’t show you is what happened outside the event that Omar spoke at where opposing voices were drowned out:

At a weekend protest in Bellevue WA, Ilhan Omar supporters chanted at a conservative, black veteran that “right-wing bigots have got to go.” He was trying to have a conversation with them. That’s not what they wanted.

A resident of Washington tweeted out a comment to the video below that says everything: “For those of us conservatives that live in Washington. None of us are surprised. The left in this state is filled with hatred, intolerance, and greed.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

States Sue to Block 1st Amendment Rights as Unconstitutional

Proof that progressive politics now defines education is walking the halls of justice and Congress. Disinformation regarding our founding documents has reached the point that 20 states are crying “foul” because the Trump administration is enforcing First Amendment rights.

Say again?

The ultimate in upside-down reasoning now stands before district courts across the United States. New York to California and 18 states in-between have filed lawsuits claiming that Department of Health and Human Services rules protecting healthcare professionals’religious beliefs are unconstitutional.

This is no joke. These states are enraged that the Trump Administration has made accommodation for doctors, nurses and other clinicians to decline participating in taking the life of a baby (unborn and upon delivery as New York and Vermont have approved).

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trump to Win in 2020 According to ‘Remarkably’ Good Models

President Trump is already predicted to win the 2020 election by three different economists, according to former Obama administration official, Wall Street executive and Brookings Institution board member Steve Rattner.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Warzone: 42 People Shot in Chicago Over Memorial Day Weekend

During the lengthened Memorial Day weekend, Chicago police responded to 42 people shot, seven of whom died of their injuries.

The violence was slightly above average for this time of year, according to homicide data indexed by the Chicago Tribune.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Another Catholic Church Vandalized, Ignored by Mainstream Media

The St. Francois Xavier Roman Catholic Church just outside Winnipeg was vandalized over the weekend — with very little media coverage, despite the fact that the vandals remain on the loose.

“Suspects gained entry to church, smashed statues & used fire extinguisher inside the church. A vehicle was seen in the church parking lot at 1:00am,” the RCMP reports.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Salim Mansur — Canada’s Digital Charter — Trudeau’s Latest Assault on Free Speech

With the introduction of Canada’s “Digital Charter” it is as if Justin Trudeau has taken a page out of George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” — committing yet another attack on our freedoms.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Why Environment Minister Catherine McKenna Never Protests China’s Ozone-Killing CFC Pollution

The global initiative to cut down on substances that deplete the ozone layer — things called CFCs or chlorofluorocarbons was signed by 197 countries, including the United States, China and Canada.

But despite that accord, global emissions of one of these forms of CFCs has been rising since 2013. After analyzing wind and weather patterns, scientists were able to determine the gases were originating from mainland China.

So far, Canada’s high profile climate warrior, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, has nothing to say about this covert pollution violation by the Chinese.

That might be because McKenna is a bit of a Sinophile, just like her boss Justin Trudeau who once praised the Chinese “basic dictatorship.” McKenna has also praised the Chinese in the past for their commitment to fighting climate change and for signing onto the Paris Accord, while a study from the US-based Effects Institute shows that 1.6 million Chinese meet an early death each year because of real pollution, like smog and smoke.

McKenna also co-chairs the China Council on climate change, a Communist Party organized panel to help the oppressive dictatorship meet its “five-year plans” and her association with the China Council costs the Canadian taxpayer a million and a half dollars, in payments to China.

It would be principled for McKenna to resign from the China Council in protest of the country’s violation of the Montreal Protocol. But I won’t hold my breath.

This is the same bright bulb that congratulated Syria for joining the Paris Accord…

           — Hat tip: Dora [Return to headlines]
 

Analysis: ‘Perverse Reality’ of EU Order Triggered Swiss Gun Vote

The Swiss government has been more supportive of citizens owning guns than just about anywhere else.

But they voted in a referendum over the weekend for more restrictions, and an analyst explains it was under extreme pressure from the European Union.

EU officials told “gun-friendly nations — the Czech Republic and Switzerland” — to make changes in their laws or lose the benefits of easy cross-border access.

“In essence, the EU provided a solution in search of a problem,” wrote Bill Wirtz of Young Voices Advocates at the Foundation for Economic Education. “And somehow, they got people to agree with it.”

He said “gun rights activists lobbied against tighter rules and pushed the vote in an attempt to oppose new agreements between Switzerland and the European Union.”

But the EU was dictating the terms, putting more restrictions on gun owners and centralizing surveillance.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Bilderberg 2019 to Meet in Montreux, Switzerland This Week

Jared Kushner to attend secretive elitist gathering.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Bilderberg 2019: Full Agenda and Participants List

MONTREUX, 28 MAY 2019 — The 67th Bilderberg Meeting will take place from 30 May — 2 June 2019 in Montreux, Switzerland. About 130 participants from 23 countries have confirmed their attendance. As ever, a diverse group of political leaders and experts from industry, finance, academia, labour and the media has been invited.

The key topics for discussion this year are:

1.   A Stable Strategic Order
2.   What Next for Europe?
3.   Climate Change and Sustainability
4.   China
5.   Russia
6.   The Future of Capitalism
7.   Brexit
8.   The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
9.   The Weaponisation of Social Media
10.   The Importance of Space
11.   Cyber Threats
 

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Biologists Name New Rat Snake Species After Iron Age Kingdom

May 28 (UPI) — Scientists have identified a new species of rat snake living in Eastern Europe. The team of herpetologists decided to name the snake after the often overlooked Iron Age kingdom of Urartu.

Researchers long suspected that the so-called blotched rat snake, Elaphe sauromates, comprised multiple species. New genetic analysis confirmed their suspicions.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Blair: Now Most Likely That Britain Will Have Second Referendum and Stay in European Union

Arch-remainer Tony Blair has leapt on the decisive victory of the Brexit Party in Sunday’s European Union election count as a clear sign that the United Kingdom needs a second referendum and to vote to cancel Brexit, keeping the country in the EU.

Speaking in an in-studio with Sky News’s Adam Boulton the Iraq war architect, New Labour leader, and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair reacted to the Brexit Party’s sudden surge from being founded as a new force to coming first in a national election in just 45 days by dismissing the concerns of their voters, claiming that a desire for Brexit itself is based on a “myth”.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

Burger King Brexit

Comedian Alistair Williams explains Brexit via Burger King LIVE from Top Secret Comedy Club

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Center-Left Domination in Europe Ending

European Union leaders and party officials plotted strategy Monday after European Parliament elections ended the domination of the main center-right and center-left parties and revealed an altered political landscape where the far-right and environmentalists stand as forces to be reckoned with.

French President Emmanuel Macron launched a flurry of meetings, ahead of a summit Tuesday where the 28-nation bloc’s presidents and prime ministers will take stock of the results from elections that attracted the highest voter turnout in 20 years.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

EU Election Results Show People Are ‘Fed Up With Fake Democracy’

Illustrates how Europeans have run out of patience for politics as usual.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

EU Elections: Was Brexit the Beginning of the End for the European Union?

The desire of the British people to reassert their national sovereignty, and leave the increasingly dictatorial European Union (EU), was reiterated in European Parliament elections, held this past week. This desire to leave the EU (Brexit) was loudly proclaimed in a 2016 British national referendum, and the failure to carry out the wishes of the British electorate has so far cost two prime ministers — David Cameron and Theresa May — their lofty positions.

Just as eastern European nations (Hungary, Poland, East Germany, Romania, and Czechoslovakia) escaped Soviet tyranny in the 1980-90s, nations across Europe are now voicing their desire to rule themselves (which, in essence, was what the American Revolution was all about). Political parties and leaders that are advocating freedom from the shackles of the EU made huge gains in the United Kingdom, France, and Italy.

In Great Britain, the governing Conservative Party is imploding because it has been unable, or unwilling, to carry out the mandate of the 2016 Brexit to leave the EU. But the Labour Party that has been the main opposition to the Conservatives for almost a hundred years also took a beating in the European Parliament elections. Emerging first in the balloting was the Brexit Party, which captured 28 of the 73 seats that the United Kingdom is entitled to in the European Parliament — an astounding feat for a political party that is only a few weeks old.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

France: Le Pen Calls on Macron to Resign After Victory in European Election

National populist leader Marine Le Pen along with her Rassemblement National (National Rally) has prevailed over France’s sitting president Emmanuel Macron in the European Parliament elections and wants him to resign.

Ms. Le Pen’s party had won 23,6 percent of the vote, edging out Macron’s La Republique En Marche (LREM) who garnered about 22,4 percent of the vote, according to French newspaper Le Figaro.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

French Senate Says Notre Dame Cathedral Must be Restored Exactly as it Was Before Fire — No Islamic Minarets or Swimming Pools

Following the disastrous fire on April 15th, modern architects made plans for the new and updated Notre Dame Catholic Cathedral in Paris, France.

Proposed plans included a giant glass spire to signify secularism or an Islamic minaret to respect the growing Muslim population.

This came after President Emmanuel Macron’s prime minister announced there would be a competition in design to rebuild the infamous cathedral.

On Monday the French Senate approved the government’s Notre-Dame restoration bill — but added a clause that it must be restored to the state it was before the blaze.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

French Woman Denied Vote Because She ‘Was Dead’

A French woman from the Lot-et-Garonne (Nouvelle-Aquitaine) who tried to vote in person in the recent European elections was told she could not do so, because records showed she had died.

The 95-year-old woman, a resident of Nérac, was forced to re-register as a voter on the electoral roll after officials told her that they could not find her on the commune list.

She joked: “I hope I’m not dead, in your computer!”

But, after checking the computer records, the election manager present then said: “Contrary to appearances, you unfortunately appear to have died on December 14, 2017.”

The elderly woman reportedly laughed and said: “Oh well, they will build Europe without me. I did not think I would have to re-register myself on the electoral roll at the age of 95!”

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Germany: Merkel Unretires: Chancellor Determined to Remain in Power Until 2021 as Succession Plan Implodes

The CDU’s abysmal showing in last week’s EU Parliamentary election marked the party’s worst result ever in a national election. And apparently, the the loss of the CDU/CSU’s position as the largest party in the bloc’s largest legislative body was the last straw for Chancellor Angela Merkel, who reportedly regrets her decision to step aside as party leader last year — a decision she made to clear the way for her chosen successor, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, or AKK.

According to media reports, Merkel is so frustrated with AKK over a series of missteps by the new CDU party leader that the chancellor has decided to withdraw her political support, throwing her well-laid succession plans into disarray.

Merkel’s determination that AKK is not ‘up to the job’ of being chancellor comes as AKK and others within the CDU have pressured Merkel to step down early to give AKK a better shot at securing a full term in 2021.

Though her ability to influence the party is limited now that she has handed over control of the party’s machinery, Merkel can still throw a massive wrench in the works by deciding to spend no more political capital helping AKK, whose chances of winning the chancellorship are fading.

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German Father is Arrested ‘After Slaughtering His Wife and Son’

A German father has been arrested for slaughtering his wife and son in their family home.

The bodies of a 38-year-old woman and her eight-year-old son were found at a home in an upmarket neighbourhood in Tiefenbronn, a town in the south-western German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg.

According to local media, the neighbours of 60-year-old engineer Josef H., who could hear the gruesome scenes unfold. He was later arrested as the suspected killer at the murder scene.

Neighbours said the man’s eldest child, 11, had sprinted out of the house covered in blood screaming ‘that’s enough now daddy’.

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Luxembourg Archbishop Laments Populist Victories in EU Elections

Luxembourg archbishop Jean-Claude Hollerich praised the successes of green parties in Sunday’s EU elections while lamenting the rise of populist-nationalist groups.

Archbishop Hollerich, president of COMECE (Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community), told reporters Monday that despite populist victories things would have been “worse” if not for the pope’s constant call for a more welcoming attitude toward migrants.

[Comment: Another commie globalist speaks out.]

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Romania Ruling Party Boss Slapped With 31/2 Year Prison Sentence for Graft

Romania’s most powerful politician has been sentenced to prison on corruption charges. Leader of the ruling Social Democrat Party (Partidul Social Democrat, PSD) Liviu Dragnea was handed a three-and-a-half year sentence by Romania’s highest appeals court on Monday.

He was attempting to get a conviction overturned stemming from egregious abuse of office violations, which included creating fake public sector jobs and handing them to party members for which they received salaries. Dragnea also had a previous conviction in a vote-rigging case.

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Schwarzenegger Teams Up With Activist Greta Thunberg at Climate Summit

A top climate summit organized by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s environmental organization has opened in Vienna. Swedish youth activist Greta Thunberg spoke at the opening of a failure by the leaders in attendance to act.

Swedish youth activist Greta Thunberg on Tuesday called on leaders to inform the public about climate change without sugarcoating “the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced.”

Most people have no clue about the scale of the climate emergency because they “have not been told, or more importantly, told by the right people,” said Thunberg, who has inspired millions of young people across the globe to participate in the Fridays for the Future school strikes.

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Swedish Social Democrats See Worst EU Election Performance of All Time

The left-wing Swedish Social Democrats continue their downward trend and although they won the overall European Parliament vote, they saw their worst performance in the party’s history.

Exit polls from national broadcaster SVT originally suggested that the ruling Social Democrats, headed by current Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, would take home around 25.1 per cent of the votes; but when the results were tallied, the party was reduced to 23.6 per cent.

[Comment: 23.6 includes the electoral fraud committed by leftists. This communist party has single handedly destroyed Sweden.]

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Swiss Green Party Candidate Claims Vegan Blood Can Kill Cancer Cells

While talking about the Vegan diet, model and Green party candidate for general elections in Switzerland Tamy Glauser said vegan blood is able to kill cancer cells, on Instagram.

She is convinced that she is better protected from cancer than non-vegans. Her Instagram-posts misstates a U.S. study and reads: “Nature heals everything. For example, vegan blood can kill cancer cells.”

The study she was referring to only talked about a possible increased risk of colon cancer through meat consumption and processed foods. Vegans were not mentioned.

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The EU Wants Your Sovereignty

Globalists pushing for total control.

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UK: ‘Absolute Tosh!’ Nigel Farage Loses His Temper and Blasts GMB Host for Repeating False Claims That Remain Votes ‘Add Up’ To a Majority in Euro Elections — Even Though Brexit Party Won Outright

Nigel Farage today angrily dismissed ‘absolute tosh’ claims that Remain parties came out on top in the European elections.

The Brexit Party leader raged that pro-EU politicians were just ‘moaning about every single election which they lose’.

The furious rebuke came after some Remainers argued that adding up the votes for anti-Brexit parties could be taken as an indication that the public did not want to leave the EU.

Former No10 spin doctor Alastair Campbell was among those trying to push the interpretation today, insisting it showed why there must be another referendum.

The Brexit Party romped home in the elections today, raking in 31.6 per cent of the vote despite being formed only six weeks ago. The Lib Dems were a distant second on 20.3 per cent, ahead of Labour on 14.1 per cent, the Greens on 12.1 per cent and the Tories, who came fifth with a dismal 9.1 per cent.

Presenter Charlotte Hawkins challenged Mr Farage about the argument as he appeared on ITV’s GMB programme, saying: ‘If you add up all the pro-Remain parties they did get a bigger percentage — 35.8 per cent versus the Brexit party 31.6 per cent. So the pro-Remain parties altogether did get a bigger percentage.’

But a clearly livid Mr Farage — who will be leading the joint largest party in the European Parliament when MEPs take up their seats in July — shot back by pointing out the obvious flaw in the argument, underlining that the results can be portrayed in various different ways to make political capital.

‘I’m sorry this is absolute tosh, he said. ‘It is not a fact.’

Mr Farage said: ‘Add up the Brexit vote, add up the Ukip vote. add the Conservative vote, who are still a party that says we are going to leave, and you will find that Leave beat Remain.

‘In fact what you will find is that overall the country is 52-48 in favour of leaving.’

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UK: ‘To All the MPs Who Told Me They Were Not Voting Labour, Your Secrets Are Safe With Me’:

‘Lifelong’ Labour member Alastair Campbell hits back with veiled threat as he is expelled from party for voting Lib Dem at EU elections

Alastair Campbell was today expelled from Labour after he admitted he had not voted for the party for first time in his life, in disgust at the party’s stance on Europe.

Tony Blair’s former spin doctor said he had backed Liberal Democrats at the European elections last Thursday because he wants to stop Brexit.

Hitting back at Corbyn and his leadership he said: ‘To all the Labour staff, MPs, peers and councillors who told me they were not voting Labour fear not; as I believe in loyalty to the tribe, your secrets are safe with me’.

The Labour leadership threw him out of the party over his vote — but Mr Campbell will appeal saying Jeremy Corbyn was never expelled despite spending years voting against Labour in Parliament from the backbenches.

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UK: BBC Says it’s Not Biased After Viewers Accused it of Downplaying Brexit Party’s Victory

The BBC defended its impartiality over claims it was ‘biased’ today after furious Brexiteers accused it of downplaying the Brexit Party’s victory in its election coverage.

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UK: Farage: Social Media Has Changed Politics… Now We’ve Got to Change the People in Westminster

Mr Farage also took aim at the media narrative dominating the news-scape after Sunday’s results.

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UK: London Bridge Terrorist Was Previously Hired to Investigate “Suspicious Packages”

One of the London Bridge terrorists who killed eight people and injured 48 others during a brutal attack in June 2017 was previously hired by Transport For London as a security guard and was tasked with investigating “suspicious packages”.

On the evening of June 3rd, 2017, a van was deliberately driven into pedestrians on London Bridge by three Islamic terrorists. The killers then proceeded to run into nearby Borough Market, a very busy area full of bars, before stabbing people in restaurants and pubs.

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UK: MEP Janice Atkinson: “the People Had Spoken for a Third Time. How Many More Times Do We Have to Vote?”

The UK won the EU elections, not fair and square, but as squatters who should be evicted as soon as possible.

The UK should never have held EU elections. It was immoral, undemocratic, expensive and farcical.

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UK: Poll Reveals Majority of Tories Voted Brexit Party, Hunt Would Freeze Out Farage From Negotiations

The majority (53 per cent) of those who voted for the Conservative Party in the 2017 General Election voted for the Brexit Party in Thursday’s EU election, a poll has revealed.

The Lord Ashcroft survey of 10,000 voters published Monday also found that 52 per cent of those who voted Tory in the last General Election and who switched to the Brexit Party would stay with the Brexit Party in the next national parliamentary vote, with only one in three (32 per cent) saying they would vote Tory again.

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UK: Richard Littlejohn: Pundit After Pundit Was Wheeled Out to Rubbish the Election Result

“It’s as if you’d watched Man City win the Cup Final 6-0 only to be told the real winners were Watford”

You stupid people. You got it wrong again. You were supposed to vote for candidates determined to stop Brexit, or at least stay at home and leave Britain’s future to the experts.

What the hell did you think you were doing voting for that dreadful fascist Farage person and his raggle-taggle gang of Trumpist racists, Russian stooges and rabid Little Englanders?

Sorry, but you needn’t think this changes anything. Just because a third of you supported the Brexit Party, it doesn’t mean you’re going to get Brexit.

Is there much more of this?

Forgive me, but this is what most of the post EU-election commentary amounted to yesterday. Just because you’re paranoid, and all that.

It was almost as if Thursday’s vote had never happened. You wouldn’t have thought that Farage’s Brexit Party had gone from 0-32 per cent in six weeks from a standing start.

If this had been Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson would have hailed him as the best ever Star In A Reasonably Priced Car.

Instead, pundit after pundit was wheeled onto the BBC and Sky to rubbish the result.

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UK: Schoolboy, 11, Is Left Bruised and Terrified After a Middle-Aged Stranger Punched Him in a ‘Vicious Unprovoked Attack’ As He Played in Park

A young boy has been punched in the face by a fully grown man in an unprovoked attack.

Daniel Keeble, 11, from Basildon, Essex, was riding his bike with friends when a man began shouting at him before walking up to him and punching him in his left eye.

Father Colin Keeble said he is ‘disgusted’ by the attack on his son, who was in a public park at the time.

The family rang the police to report the attack, but no officers were sent to try and find the attacker.

Mr Keeble said that he was very upset that there was no attempt to catch the man, even though they had a description and location.

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UK: Thug Couple Kick and Stamp on Elderly Man in Shocking City Centre Attack as 10 Bystanders Watch

Sickening CCTV footage shows the moment an elderly man is kicked and stamped on by a thug couple in a shocking street attack — while more than ten people walk past.

The elderly victim was set upon by a tracksuit-wearing thug and his girlfriend as he crossed the road.

Footage shows the yob approach the man who was walking along High Road, in Beeston, Nottinghamshire, at 6.50pm on March 29, and throw a can of beer over him.

As the victim walks away the woman, wearing a short skirt and heels, also splashes beer over the man’s head. The couple walks across the zebra crossing and the man launches a flying kick into the victim’s back which sends him sprawling to the ground.

Shockingly, as he tries to get up the couple continue to kick and stamp on the victim while stunned witnesses simply watch and cross the road.

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UK: Viewers Accuse Channel 5 of ‘Glorifying Grooming’ For Featuring a Man, 44, Who Started a Relationship With a 16-Year-Old Girl in a Show About ‘Age Gap Love’

Channel 5 has come under fire from viewers for ‘normalising grooming’ after posting a clip of a show about age gap relationships, featuring a man in his 40s who met his wife when she was 16.

The broadcaster tweeted a clip from Age Gap Love, which first aired in November 2018, to tease the return of the documentary series in June.

It featured bus driver Andy Telford from North Wales who was 44-years-old when he started a relationship with Beth Telford, 16, after becoming friends with her mother.

The pair were forced to move 170 miles from Llandudno in North Wales to Lancashire after neighbours branded Andy a ‘paedo’ when news of their controversial affair got out.

The couple have now been married for three years and have two children together, but Twitter users hit out at the channel for ‘glorifying the grooming of an underage girl and the inappropriate relationship that follows.’

One viewer wrote: ‘This is not entertainment it is grooming, and reading between the lines, I’m going to suggest he was her ‘step dad’ or mum’s partner at one point

‘She doesn’t seem him as a “dad”, probably because he didn’t behave as a dad and groomed a child.’

[Commnet: Viewers are right.]

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UK: What if Euro Poll Was a General Election? Farage Would be PM With a 200-Seat Majority — But in Reality Higher Turnout Would Keep Nigel Out of No 10 (Probably)

Nigel Farage might have delivered a political earthquake in the EU elections — but it would be nothing to the shock if he could replicate the performance in a Westminster election.

The Brexit Party would be sitting on a 200-plus seat majority if the votes broke down the same way in a general election, according to the Electoral Calculus website.

Such results would spell disaster for key Conservative strongholds — with constituencies held by Cabinet ministers Sajid Javid and Brandon Lewis among those most at risk.

The figures will come as a brutal wake-up call to the Tories, although experts have played down the likelihood of a Westminster election having the same outcome.

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Vatican Newspaper: Sovereignty ‘Diametrically Opposed’ To Europe

The pro-sovereignty movement that made such extraordinary gains in Sunday’s European elections is the enemy of Europe, the Vatican’s L’Osservatore Romano newspaper said in a front-page editorial Monday.

Andrea Monda, personally appointed as the newspaper’s editor-in chief by Pope Francis last December, said that the Lega’s substantial victory in Italy was particularly worrisome.

[Comment: More proof the vatican has been taken over by globalists and communists.]

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“A Tsunami of Fake S***”: Joe Rogan Sounds Alarm on Deep Fake Videos

Podcaster Joe Rogan has sounded the alarm on deep fake videos after researchers at Samsung AI were able to professionally create talking heads out of people in old black and white photos and even paintings.

Working at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, the scientists have been able to simplify “realistic neural talking head models” which normally require a huge dataset of images to look genuine.

The researchers created life-like talking heads with just a few images of a person and even in some cases just a single image.

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Everest Mountaineer’s Tragic Last Text From Summit

An Irish climber who fell to his death on Mount Everest sent a heartbreaking last text to his pregnant wife from the summit telling her ‘he’d done it’.

Just hours after sending the text, Seamus Lawless, 39, fell on the 27,000-ft high ‘balcony’ area of the world’s highest mountain early on Thursday.

Guides eventually called off their search for the mountaineer, an assistant professor at the School of Computer Science at Trinity College, Dublin.

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Frightening System Targets Anyone Not Behaving to Gov’t Standards

Many Americans have issues with receiving a news report produced by artificial intelligence. Or having videos censored because some tech geek has created an algorithm that defines it as inappropriate.

They should thank their lucky stars they’re not in China.

Human Rights Watch has uncovered the “inner workings” of software used by police in the autonomous territory of Xinjiang that monitors people for any deviation from “an algorithmically determined norm.”

The Electronic Frontier Foundation said the app is used by authorities to communicate with the Integrated Joint Operations Platform, IJOP, which collects information from all surveillance in the territory.

The system targets “just about anyone” who isn’t behaving according to the government’s standards.

EFF noted IJOP “requires a massive amount of manual labor, all focused towards data entry and translating the physical world into digital relationships.”

Xinjiang is home to the Uighurs and other Turkic minority groups that have been targeted in crackdowns by the Chinese communists.

[Comment: China is watching their Islamic communities like a hawk. Prudent given the history of Islamic attacks in China — likely many are hidden behind the communist curtain. On the flip side, this tech being tested in China will be used in the west to monitor patriots, constitionalists, etc… ]

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How an Australian Tradie Terrorist Designed Rockets ‘Branded’ With the Islamic State Flag — as He Denounces the Terror Group as an ‘Evil Cult’ And Cries in Court Facing 25 Years in Jail

Electrician Haisem Zahab, 44, spent three years helping ISIS from his home in Young, rural New South Wales before he was arrested in February 2017.

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‘It’s in Our Interest’: Australian ISIS Fighters and Their Families Should be Allowed Back Home, Intelligence Agencies Say

Security reviews by intelligence agencies including Australia’s ASIO has lead to recommendations jihadists and their families be allowed to return home.

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Wild Two-Day ‘Crime Spree’ Worsens as Gang ‘Of African Appearance’ With ‘Edged Weapons and Metal Poles Break Into a Home, Steal a BMW and Attack People All Over Melbourne’

Police on Tuesday arrested a 17-year-old boy after a BMW believed to be have stolen in the early hours of the morning was found in a shopping centre car park.

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White South African Couple Executed in ‘Racist Attack’ On Highway

Robbers used racial slurs before opening fire on vehicle.

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*Ugh* Pope Francis Trashes Trump — Compares Trump Wall to Berlin Wall (Video)

Red Francis once again attacked President Trump comparing the Trump border wall to the Berlin Wall.

The Berlin Wall was built by the Soviets to keep the East Germans from fleeing their communist overlords.

The Trump wall is designed to keep the millions of illegal aliens and tons of drugs out of the country.

Last month there was another 100,000 illegal aliens captured at the US border.

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“We Build the Wall” Closes Off Human and Drug Smuggling Corridor in One Weekend! $100,000 a Day Drug Pipeline Shut Down (Video)

For months the liberal media mocked “We Build the Wall” founder and organizer Brian Kolfage and his noble plan to use private donations to help build the much-needed security wall between the US and Mexico. Brian raised over $20 million in private donations from over 260,000 individuals to build a border wall on the US southern border.

This Memorial Day Weekend the “We Build the Wall” organization built their first half mile of border wall near El Paso, Texas.

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Dem Gov Who Pulled Troops From Border Now Demands Federal Help

Border crisis so bad liberal politicians forced to address surge of illegals.

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France: Suspect Behind Lyon Parcel Bomb Attack is an Illegal Migrant From Algeria

The suspect behind a parcel bomb attack in Lyon, France that injured 13 people has been named as Mohamed Hickem M., a 24-year-old illegal immigrant from Algeria.

Authorities say that the motive for the attack remains unknown and they have not uncovered any links to Islamism.

Police say Hickem constructed the IED and left it outside a bakery on Friday. The parcel contained the explosive substance TATP and was packed with ball bearings and screws to inflict maximum damage.

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German School Bans Camouflage Clothing to ‘Respect’ Refugees

A German secondary school in the city of Lage has banned students from wearing clothing with camouflage patterns, claiming it could harm asylum seeker children traumatised by war.

Many parents of students who attend the school are reportedly deeply critical of the move to ban items of clothing with camouflage patterns, according to a report from German news website TAG 24.

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Hungary Vows to Fight EU Mass Migration Agenda After Huge Election Win

Budapest has vowed to ‘keep Hungary Hungarian’ after the country’s governing Fidesz party won a massive victory in European Parliament elections on Sunday on a platform of countering mass immigration.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose party won a record 52 per cent of the vote, said that the government would do everything it could to represent the will of the Hungarian people, who he said had trusted Fidesz to “bring change to Brussels” and to support a Europe of nations rather than a bureaucrat-run EU superstate, local media reports.

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Illegal Aliens Are Caught — Then Released Into U.S. Interior

Despite President Trump’s strong rhetoric critical of the of the “catch and release” of illegal aliens, the practice has not only continued but is being expanded.

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Illegal Health Care Worker Murders 12 Patients

Did you know that Democrat-Communists accuse anyone as being a racist who inquires about someone’s legal status? Yes, this is the latest, despite the fact that intruders from Central America are mostly connected with the cruel murderous gang, MS-13. Gang-style murders committed by illegal aliens have become common both on the Maryland and Virginia sides of Washington, D.C.

Yet nobody in the George Soros “main stream” media have reported on the immigration status of these roaming killers. The ‘press’ has been silent on that point. And of real concern is the close proximity to Washington, D.C., the most important area of The United States. It would not take much for them to show up to interrupt and cause havoc in the houses of Congress and Senate.

Last week, three teens, including two confirmed illegal aliens from El Salvador, were charged with first degree murder in Prince George County, Maryland for literally butchering to death a 14 year old with a bat and machete. So when was the last time this happened? It did not until now. This grisly crime has taken place now as the Democrats feel it is their duty to open the borders and overwhelm America with illegal hoodlums, for the purpose of weakening America. The Democrats are an evil party who want only evil to infect our country. Their obvious connection to Satan is compelling. Here is the full story with embedded links documenting that this is COMMON:

The Soros owned media has refused to inform the public that an illegal, who had barged into this country and obtained employment as a health care worker murdered at least 12 elderly women in Texas. Billy Chemimir (the name he gave), a 46 year old healthcare worker, had already been charged with capital murder in March of 2018 in the death of Lu Thi Harris, 81, according to One News Now, but was indicted on Tuesday for 11 additional deaths. Chemimir, a citizen of Kenya (like Obama) was living illegally in the United States and smothered his victims with a pillow and then robbed them. This illegal savage killed them to rob them. So the government benefits are not enough for them.

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Michael Gove Will Offer Free British Nationality to Three Million EU Nationals

Michael Gove will offer three million EU citizens the chance of free British nationality if he becomes Prime Minister, in an eye-catching policy pitch in the Tory leadership race.

The environment secretary will waive the usual £1,330 fee for eligible EU nationals who lived in the UK at the time of the June 2016 referendum.

And in a break with Theresa May’s policies, Mr Gove will also water down the controversial ‘settled status’ scheme for EU nationals, replacing it with a less stringent registration scheme.

Lobbying for Mr Gove’s leadership campaign, his supporters said the plan was intended to ‘heal the nation’.

[Comment: Another traitorous globalist elite.]

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Pope Francis Warns Against ‘Intolerance and Racism’ Towards Migrants a Day After Nationalist Parties Triumph in Italy, France and Britain

Pope Francis has warned against a rise in intolerance and racism a day after a series of populist and nationalist victories in the European elections.

[Comment: Here we go… if you are against mass migration then you must be a racist and intolerant… more garbage from comrade Francis. How high are the wall around the Vatican city again?]

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Populist League Wins Big in Italian Region Known for Pro-Migrant Politics

Anti-mass migration interior minister Matteo Salvini and his League party won the most votes in the southern Italian commune of Riace, despite it being known for its pro-migrant local politicians and policies.

According to polling results, the League has taken 30.75 per cent of the votes in Riace, Calabria, in the European Parliament elections held over the weekend, beating out the Five Star Movement by just over three per cent, Italian newspaper Il Giornale reports.

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Spanish Crime Wave Sparked by Illegals, Report Says

There’s a new report of immigrants, many who are unaccompanied minors, illegally crossing a southern border and igniting a crime wave.

In Spain.

A report from the Gatestone Institute documents how, similar to the United States, government-funded benefits have helped spur illegal immigration.

But worse is the fact that authorities are hiding the problem to avoid “fueling anti-immigration sentiments.”

Six “African” migrants, from the continent’s Muslim-majority north, the institute noted, gang-raped a 12-year-old girl near Madrid, but authorities kept the crime hidden.

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A Wake-Up Call for Every Family and Church in the United Stares

The Making of a “Happy Slave”

The following blatant words taken from the G20 Sustainable Development Declaration, 2018, Argentina, serves as a wake-up call for every family and church in the United Stares:

“… education represents a strategic policy area that has a profound impact on people, the planet and the prosperity of nations. Education is the foundation of personal development as it provides children, youth and adults with the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes necessary to reach their full potential. Education helps to reduce poverty and promote active citizenship, therefore contributing to peaceful, inclusive and prosperous societies across the world.” And to educate and train people to have the … “necessary skills for the future of work, the importance of opportunities to re-and upskill throughout their working lives, and assist them to successfully adapt to change.” ( Emp. Noted.)

Is education really the foundation of personal development?

The UN Declaration eliminates parents, families, and churches to develop personal values and attitudes for this new world order. Eliminating traditional family values is the goal. Belief in God, loyalty to your country and the authority of parents will be erased. Children will be transformed and molded into the new global citizen through education. It’s mental health. It’s nationwide. It’s worldwide.

“… Successful strategists aim for the heart first” — Jeroen De Flander

Nothing in current history has ever been so plain, yet hidden behind deceptive phrases that ooze betrayal. Our children are a target, but the agenda is very clear. Schools in the United States have been used in experimental research in the area of the affective domain including the spiritual aspect of a child’s being, the heart. The teaching method is called the “whole child.” This has been the area where values, attitudes, beliefs, and dispositions have been the focus for behavioral conditioning and value change. United States citizens must have their individualist qualities, their freedom loving values, and their individualistic competitive personalities changed. Change in America is a must to conform the U.S. into a socialistic country including global compromise. Americans must become global citizens. Re-engineering education has toppled academics for the new psyche wards claiming to be your neighborhood school. The churches have closed their eyes.

How is it being done? Experimental and illegal data collection targets the individual needing behavioral change and identifies how much mental health interventions are needed to meet government goals processed in the classrooms of your local school. This system recycles children in a continuous feedback loop control model until the goals are accomplished.

[… ]

Children were placed in hypothetical situations and asked what action (behavior) they would take. Questions were posed by positive and negative responses and through reward and punishment where a threshold could be determined and scored at what point a child would change their behavior.

[Comment: Recommended reading.]

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Call to “Steal From Walmart” Over Abortion Controversy Goes Viral

A call by abortion activists to mass loot Walmart stores over the company’s donations to pro-life lawmakers has gone viral.

Earlier this month, the Alabama Legislature passed the Human Life Protection Act, which imposes a near blanket ban on abortion including in cases of rape and incest.

Last week, it was revealed that six corporations had funded lawmakers responsible for pushing anti-abortion laws in Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Kentucky, Missouri, and Ohio.

One of those companies is Walmart, which donated $57,700 in total, including $7,000 to Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and $10,000 to Ohio Senate President Larry Obhof.

This led one Twitter user to tweet a call to, “STEAL FROM WALMART 2019.”

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Cultural Marxism: The Corruption of America

Produced by James Jaeger, the documentary shows how a group of Marxist theoreticians, calling themselves The Frankfurt School, plotted the corruption and overthrow of non-Communist nations by systematically undermining their cultures. Called Cultural Marxism, its goal is the use of art, music, education, and media to condition people to accept the essential elements of Marxism without identifying them as such. After a few generations of this conditioning, Marxism becomes the new reality without a violent revolution and even without awareness that a revolution has occurred.

If you want to know how the nations of the world became increasingly Marxist in form, if not in name, here is the strategy.

The film’s opening statement by Pat Buchanan prepares the viewer for what is to follow: “The United States has undergone a cultural, moral, and religious revolution. … We are two countries now. We are two countries morally, culturally, socially, and theologically. Cultural wars do not lend themselves to peaceful co-existence. One side prevails, or the other prevails. The truth is that, while we won the Cold War with political and economic Communism, we lost the war with cultural Marxism, which now is dominant. Those of us who are traditionalists, we are the counterculture.”

Includes testimony from G. Edward Griffin, Ron Paul, Pat Buchanan, Edwin Vieira, and Ted Baehr.

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Dem Candidate Eric Swalwell All But Apologizes for Being White

Democratic presidential candidate Eric Swalwell was slammed on Twitter after he all but apologized for being white.

During an interview with VICE, Swalwell was asked, “Why should another white guy be president?”

The interviewer appeared to have forgotten the fact that a black guy was recently president for 8 years.

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Fake Hate: Subway Passenger Lied About Gay Attack — Was Actually the Aggressor

A subway passenger who claimed to have been attacked by two men screaming gay slurs was lying.

Police now say the gay man was the aggressor who was spitting on passengers. The two men who approached him were trying to calm the man down.

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Leftist Lunacy at Cannes

This year’s Cannes Film Festival in France opened with a new Jim Jarmusch movie from Focus Features (owned by the reliably liberal NBC Universal) called The Dead Don’t Die, filled with in-your-face attacks on Republicans, conservatives, and people/states who vote for them. The plot is spurred by an environmental apocalypse caused by “polar fracking.”

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‘My Vegan Diet Brought on Early Menopause’: She’s a Poster Girl for the Meat-Free Revolution. But in a Shocking Confession, Cookery Author and Social Media Guru Virpi Mikkonen, 39, Admits it Ruined Her Health (So She’s Eating Burgers!)

Early last year, Virpi Mikkonen was alarmed by the appearance of a rash on her face.

There were other problems: a bout of flu that was hard to shift; crumbling nails; feeling low; and, most worrying, her periods stopped. A blood test revealed her follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) levels had sky-rocketed to the level at which women hit the menopause. Virpi was 37 and having hot flushes.

‘I thought, what’s wrong with me? I am healthy, I exercise,’ Virpi says. ‘I was really scared.’

At the time, Virpi believed herself to be eating the healthiest of all diets: gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free, meat-free, refined sugar-free. And what’s more, she’d built a career inspiring others to eat it, too.

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NPR Talk Show ‘1A’ Devotes Hour to Pro-Abortion Viewpoint, It’s Just ‘Pregnancy Tissue’

The National Public Radio talk show 1A did an hour on new “restrictive” laws on abortion on Tuesday, but it was not a debate, it was a pro-abortion show. Substitute host Sasha-Ann Symons announced “we want today’ s conversation to focus on the impact and likely consequences of these laws. Our guests are here to answer your questions, not to debate the topic.” The guests were two liberal journalists and an abortionist, who described she can “remove all the pregnancy tissue.”

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Some Christian Leaders Join ‘Resist’ Movement

Several Methodist church leaders in Bloomington-Normal are joining a national effort to formally resist the global church’s recent efforts to strengthen bans against gay clergy and same-sex weddings.

The group of more than 600 United Methodists gathered last week in Leawood, Kansas, at a conference billed as UMC Next to address the churches’ anti-LGBTQ stance.

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The End of Women’s Sports: Biological Male Wins NCAA Women’s Track Championship — Video

A biological male who identifies as a woman won the NCAA women’s track championship over the weekend.

Cece Telfer, a biological male (transgender), won the women’s 400 meter hurdles on Saturday night and beat the second place competitor by over a full second.

The coach praised Cece Telfer for being the first student-athlete in Franklin Pierce history to collect an individual national title.

           — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago [Return to headlines]
 

The Guardian: ‘Women Are Happier Without Children or a Spouse’

I’m sure it’s just pure coincidence this article came out just days after the New York Times caused a mass triggering by reporting just the opposite.

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Who Needs Debate? CNN’s ‘United Shades’ Spiked Pro-Lifers to ‘Stop the Patriarchy’

Kira Davis at RedState reports that the “woke” CNN documentary series United Shades of America wasted the time of two pro-life activists as the host, comedian W. (Walter) Kamau Bell, decided to air an almost entirely one-sided lecture about “reproductive justice.” There are no “united shades” on this show. It’ s divisive agitprop from the get-go.

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7 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/28/2019

  1. “German School Bans Camouflage Clothing to ‘Respect’ Refugees” well, time for the parents of the students to move them to a different school or buy lots of camo clothing for them.

    • yes, and citizens were asked not to throw firecrackers or – works on holidays in presence of traumatized refugees!
      Now guess who are the keenest fireworkers on new years eve and waste amounts on taxpayers expense that I wouldn’ t dare to spend!

  2. The EU parliament is a fraud (despite this is nothing new).
    The formation of a new political group (of populist inspiration) at the EUparliament is not even possible:
    https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/international/535889-council-of-europe-dismisses-far-right-parties-grouping
    https://www.timesofisrael.com/council-of-europe-assembly-rejects-far-right-political-grouping/
    https://fr.timesofisrael.com/conseil-de-leurope-la-creation-dun-groupe-dextreme-droite-refusee/
    https://www.money.it/consiglio-d-europa-boccia-gruppo-parlamentare-lega
    http://www.rainews.it/dl/rainews/articoli/consiglio-europa-non-riconosce-gruppo-con-lega-afd-dd83ec3c-f9e6-4c71-a6e8-853eac80a5b3.html?refresh_ce

    This is like excommunication by another authority (bigger ? higher ?) because they said that such a group would be against the human rights.

    This is the PACE (Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe) site:
    http://www.assembly.coe.int/nw/Home-EN.asp

    It is a strange beast, made by 47 states (many more then EU itself, likle Russia and Turkey too):
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_Assembly_of_the_Council_of_Europe

    But they (PACE) can say who can form a group and who cannot at european parliament: this is the biggest scam ever in the last “elections”, so voting at european election is pure fraud, because despite higher number of populist parties, they are unable to form a block, that means that EPP + S&D + ALDE is continuing its power with no possibility to change anything by voting.

  3. Germany is a sick country, where war zone ???, war is Syria is over , and the others are illegal invaders by this unbelievable stupid politicians, I’m speechless..

    • They rely on the majority of people believing whatever the evening news tells them, without checking the information or doing at least some research on their own.
      To be fair, this behaviour isn’t exclusive to either side of the political spectrum. Even though conservatives tend to be a bit more suspicious than liberals, the majority is still dumb enough to blindly trust whichever source they consider reliable.
      People who follow both sides, check the presented information on various sources and compared it to get as close to the truth as possible are a teeny tiny minority.
      And it’s not because people don’t have time for that, checking several sources doesn’t take more than maybe 15 minutes a day, it’s just that people simply don’t care as long as they have something to eat and a place to sleep. Why else do you think tabloids and reality shows sell so much better than serious media?

    • What’s even more concerning is that SPD was second and the Greens third. Since those parties would definitely join a coalition, that gives them a solid 65,93%. That’s really dangerous, to say the least!

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